Author: Adventures

The day I left for training camp I found a card that my dad had snuck into my backpack. On the front of the card was a picture of a little girl pushing a big rock with all her might, a rock that clearly could not be easily moved, especially by a child as small as her. He wrote inside that over these next four months in Guatemala I will probably feel like that little girl often. He encouraged me that even when I feel like the task I am striving to accomplish is impossible, it is not because God is with me, and he is ultimately my strength. When I read that card for the first time I knew that...

               By this time tomorrow, I’ll be in another country. I still can’t wrap my mind around that. Training camp has been pretty crazy, but I feel like our team has meshed together really well. The first day in Atlanta, after riding the Marta, we arrived in a place called the SafeHouse. They’re an organization that provides ministries for the homeless and that’s where we would be sleeping for the first night. Late that night, we were given the opportunity to go out onto the streets and just talk to people. We walked a...

“It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ,…He had His eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose He is working out in everything and everyone.” Ephesians 1:11 (Msg)   Let me first start off by saying that this is not my plan, but His. Being back in Alabama with all my friends would definitely be a lot easier. I fought God for months about coming on this trip. I didn’t understand why God would want me to leave the life I had when I was already so...

This journey has been extraordinary and I have yet to even leave the States! Training camp has stretched me. Everything from growing my character and confidence in the Lord to taking showers with a hose to just letting go and dancing without a care during Super Fun Morning Time; I can feel each of these strengthening who I am and beginning to lay down the foundation for who I will be at the end of this journey.                 I have always known that I have walls built up between me and God. I have no idea why, I...

La verdad que no se donde empezar. Esta semana ha sido una locura. Siento que tengo tanto que contarles, pero no se como ponerlo todo en palabras. Llegamos al aeropuerto el viernes y ahi nos conocimos todos. Honestamente fue miedoso llegar de un sitio donde todo el mundo te conoce y te quiere y luego llegas a un sitio donde nadie te conoce y tienes que empezar de nuevo con todo el mundo. Pero pues ha sido chevere conocer a todas las ninas y ninos de mi equipo. Entonces el viernes nos quedamos en un shelter de personas sin casa en el centro de Atlanta. Fue super duro, solo ver como vive...